Abigail Sanders, MS
Evaluation Specialist
abigail.yasmin.sanders@emory.edu
Abigail is an Evaluation Specialist with Emory Centers for Public Health Training and Technical Assistance PEQI Center. In her role, she strives to cultivate transformational relationships with her clients by offering program monitoring, evaluation, and learning support to public health projects and programs from a culturally responsive and equitable lens. Abigail is passionate about using mixed-methods research and evaluation approaches to help public health organizations produce meaningful outcomes and achieve organizational resiliency.
Prior to working in public health program evaluation, Abigail was a Program Director for a K-8 arts-based school in Pittsburgh, PA, and is a former public high school visual arts teacher. She has a BA in Elementary Education and Visual Arts from Chatham University. She has more than a decade of experience teaching and managing K-12 STEAM programs and over five years of experience evaluating food security, education, and behavioral health programs from an equity and empowerment lens. Following her transition into public health, Abigail led community organizing and advocacy-based storytelling programs for reproductive health and food security organizations. Having experienced the power of culture, perspective, and narratives within data systems to shape individual and community health outcomes, she became driven to help organizations achieve greater intended impact through inclusive evaluation approaches.
Abigail has experience in farming, homesteading, and food production. She lives on a working farm in Western Pennsylvania with her senior rescue animals. She is completing her MS in Measurement and Evaluation through American University in Washington, DC. Finally, she is the co-chair of the Information Management Committee for Assemble, a Black Liberatory STEAM Education organization in Pittsburgh, PA.
